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Subject: Re: JFFS2 access delay
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David M=FCller (ELSOFT AG) wrote:
> The JFFS2 partition has 126MiB, the whole NAND flash has a size of 128M=
iB.
The problem with JFFS2 is that is does not scale. 126 MiB is very large=20
partition for it. Read=20
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/tech/JFFS3design/node3.html for more=20
details. JFFS2 was designed for small flashes and works perfectly with th=
em.

BTW, the flash file system for Large-scale flashes is rather challenging =

task.

--=20
Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.